If an epidemic were to happen at UTA, the campus wouldn’t be prepared to deal with it.
At least that’s biology freshman Ross Armant estimated when he wrote a compelling paper about the possibility of an epidemic for an English class about covering data of epidemics.
Ross imagines the worst-case scenario play out if an virus spread, but not like the so-called Ebola “outbreak” of 2014.
“Ebola was a very rare incident and wasn’t really a true outbreak,” he said.
The disease would infect the UTA community — and would then spread to the greater DFW area. He studied how quickly it spreads with a simple modelbased on the Spanish flu epidemic. Each infected person is likely to infect two other people.